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  • How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 07 August 2013
    How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
  • Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 August 2013
    Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
  • Edward Snowden's '1984'
    Bulletin article by Ian Bond, 24 July 2013
    Edward Snowden's '1984'
  • United against Iranian nukes
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    International Herald Tribune, 14 September 2005

    Last February, a group of European and American foreign policy experts issued the "Compact Between the United States and Europe," a detailed proposal for trans-Atlantic cooperation on the key foreign policy issues of the day (IHT Feb. 17, 2005).
  • A beacon of liberty flickers: Observations on Georgia
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    New Statesman, 18 July 2005

    President Bush proclaimed Georgia a "beacon for liberty" when he visited Tbilisi in May. Georgia has certainly made great progress since people power overthrew the corrupt and incompetent regime of Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. Nevertheless, clouds are dimming the light of that beacon.
  • The UK should see enlargement as an opportunity to revive the Lisbon process
    Opinion piece by Alasdair Murray
    Progress online, 01 June 2005

    At the Lisbon summit in 2000, EU leaders signed up to an ambitious economic reform programme: the Lisbon agenda, designed to close the economic gap with the US.
  • What new transatlantic institutions?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 April 2005

    Earlier this year, Gerhard Schröder caused a stir with a speech to the Munich Security Conference. When he said that NATO was no longer the forum for top level strategic discussions between Europeans and Americans he was stating the obvious.
  • Europe: the new superpower
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Irish Times, 18 February 2005

    The world that emerges in this century will not be centred on the US or the UN, but will comprise a community of regional clubs led by the Europeans, writes Mark Leonard in London.
  • A concrete strategy for mending fences
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    International Herald Tribune, 17 February 2005

    For the past several years, the conventional wisdom has been that the United States and Europe have grown apart, that the end of the cold war and 9/11 have produced a strategic divergence that is impossible to overcome.
  • Europe's transformative power
    Bulletin article by Mark Leonard , 01 February 2005

    Type the words 'Europe' and 'crisis' into the internet search engine Google, and more than four million entries come up. The media use these two words so frequently that they have become interchangeable.
  • President Bush: Why you need the Europeans
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 December 2004

    Dear Mr President, You have defeated an opponent who made a point of saying that he would pay more attention to European allies than you have done. You and your supporters must feel that your 'Americafirst' philosophy has been vindicated.